Showing posts with label Athos Bulcão. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Athos Bulcão. Show all posts

Friday, 9 November 2012

Tiles (III)

Perhaps one of the last in Brasília from Athos Bulcão, these beautifull tile set is at the Interlegis Building, since 2001.

Tiles from Athos Bulcão. Photo: Roberta Sá

Other pictures here.

Monday, 15 October 2012

Tiles

Photo: Roberta Sá

Brasília is full of beautiful tiles. They come as a surprise, in places you do not expect. Not old ones, like you can see around Lisbon, but modern ones, designed by Athos Bulcão (July 2, 1918 – July 31, 2008). 

He was public artist, interior designer, muralist, furniture and graphic designer, from Rio de Janeiro, invited to Brasilia to collaborate with Oscar Niemeyer. 

These tiles pictured are all over the wall of a small church (Nossa Senhora de Fátima, 307/308 South), called by locals as “Igrejinha”, since 1957.